BIG Questions – Page 78

Should Big Bang Step Aside for Big Chill?
By the Editor on August 20, 2012
The start of the universe should be modeled not as a Big Bang but more like water freezing into...
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Skull Resets Human Migration Clock
By the Editor on August 20, 2012
Newfound pieces of human skull from “the Cave of the Monkeys” in Laos are the earliest skeletal evidence yet...
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Quantum Processor Factors Prime Number
By the Editor on August 20, 2012
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have built a quantum processor that can factor a composite number – in this...
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Massachusetts Butterflies Move North as Climate Warms
By the Editor on August 20, 2012
The authors of a Harvard study published in Nature Climate Change gathered their data from an unlikely source—the trip...
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Future of Data: Encoded in DNA
By the Editor on August 20, 2012
In the latest effort to contend with exploding quantities of digital data, researchers encoded an entire book into the...
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New Science of Religion Says God Has Gotten a Bad Rap
By the Editor on August 18, 2012
The implication that religion is basically malevolent is a standard assertion of the New Atheists. Their argument isn’t just...
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Star Clusters on a Collision Course  
By the Editor on August 18, 2012
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope recently observed two clusters full of massive stars that appear to be in the early...
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How “Policy By Panic” Can Backfire for Environmentalists
By the Editor on August 18, 2012
When well-meaning campaigners want us to pay attention to global warming, they often end up pitching beyond the facts....
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Temperature Rise Slows Economy in Poor Countries
By the Editor on August 17, 2012
Small increases in temperature may have reduced the industrial and agricultural production of poor countries, according to a study...
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A Major Advance Toward a Birth Control Pill for Men
By the Editor on August 17, 2012
Potentially huge news published today in the journal Cell is the result of two years of collaboration between teams...
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